- Service ensign · official · carried by Armed Forces of Ukraine
- State affiliation · Ukraine
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: Ensign of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — carried by Armed Forces of Ukraine, not issued to this record. The ensign of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The design itself is excluded from copyright by Article 8 of Ukraine’s Law on Copyright and Related Rights, which names symbols and signs of government authorities, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations. The file shipped is the Wikimedia Commons SVG "Ensign of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.svg", released under PD-UA-exempt on that basis, so no attribution or share-alike obligation attaches. Optimised for web display; geometry unaltered.
State affiliation: Ukraine.
The smaller square mark is a Vigil category device, drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role — not an official insignia.
In brief
The half of the Logistics Forces that owns consumption — fuel, food, general materiel and military signals supply, through central directorates and the storage bases beneath them. The ministry publishes the Armament/Rear split; the directorate list is published compilation and every child edge is graded reported for that reason.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. 4 subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported
- Sources
- 4 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Nationwide: the central directorates and storage bases that feed fuel, rations, clothing and general materiel, and communications equipment, forward to every grouping. No location below the branch is authored.
- Notable history
- The Rear service carries the older Soviet-pattern distinction between what a force consumes and what it fights with. It existed separately from the Armament service until the presidential decree of 29 May 2018 created a single Logistics Command over both, and became part of a branch of the Armed Forces on 1 January 2022. The full-scale war changed its scale more than its shape: a million-strong force to feed and fuel, an energy system under declared attack since 2022, and the largest inflow of donated non-lethal materiel any European army has absorbed — most of which arrived through this half of the branch.
- Strengths
- Ownership of every consumable in one service, so that fuel, food, materiel and signals supply are planned against the same picture; dispersal of the storage estate learnt under sustained strike; and four years of running supply at wartime scale, which no partner army has done recently.
- Limitations
- Fuel is the constraint the service cannot set for itself — it depends on imports, refining outside the country and a grid under attack — and long road hauls replace rail wherever the network is interdicted. The public record ends at the directorate names; nothing about stocks, depots or throughput is published, and none is authored.
Subordinate formations
Central Fuel and Lubricants DirectorateDirectorate · subordination reportedCentral Food Supply DirectorateDirectorate · subordination reportedCentral Material Provision DirectorateDirectorate · subordination reportedCentral Military Signals DirectorateDirectorate · subordination reportedRows are layout only — position and order carry no hierarchy, importance, sequence or strength. Every record shown is an immediate subordinate of the selected organisation.
Assessed as of — 2026-09 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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